Is time a by product of gravity? If for some reason the earth or any planet stopped orbiting around the sun and or stopped rotating would or could time stop? Though we cannot see time is it not a force of nature and subject to the laws of nature ?
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no i do not think that time would stop clocks would continue the sun just wouldn’t rise in the mornings which would cause an ice age.
No…if a planet’s tangential motion were to cease in the reference frame of its parent star…what would occur is that it would plummet to doom in the stellar body of its parent star.
In fact, there is a planet in a distant PLANETARY SYSTEM (not solar system, since only ours is a solar system) named Wasp 12-b…and Wasp 12-b is doomed to accretion with its parent star. Wasp 12-b simply formed in an orbit such that the interlagrangian point of it and its parent star lied internal to the gaseous body of Wasp 12-b, and gas is “falling off” of Wasp 12-b in to an accretion disc of the parent star Wasp 12.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/dd/WASP-12b_%28NASA%29.jpg
Time is not a “force of nature” because it isn’t a force. Time is not due to gravity. Time is just something that continues to pass and makes it such that not everything happens simultaneously…but such that distingusihing sequences of events is possible.
Even if gravity were to somehow cease to exist…time still would progress. There are other methods of measuring time that have nothing to do with planetary rotations or orbits. Just because the units of time originate from studying Earth’s motion does not mean that Earth’s motion causes time.
Also…even if we don’t measure time…it still passes. Time is always progressing…period.
if the planets stopped orbiting the sun, there would be no centrifugal force, the planets would be sucked into the sun
Time is currently maintained by an atomic clock, not by the motion of the earth about the sun.
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spacetime itself is a real quantifiable property of the universe, like mass is for particles. Strangely enough, the independent dimensions of time separate from space are both imaginary. because the observable universe is strictly quantitative, there are only two exceptions which are qualitative and cant be expressed in terms of quantifiable unit of something else. spacetime and mass/joules(since matter and energy are the same thing, they can be put in the same terms). spacetime is infinite, thus space extends forever and the FLOW of time doesnt really have a beginning or end(despite the big bang). so we make arbitrary units based on comparing these two properties which only make sense given a finite frame of reference in relation to each other. space and time are therefore the same thing said in a different way, like mass to joules. does light travel a lightyear depending on how much time you give it, or does light travel for a year given it has the space in which to travel? its not paradoxical, its redundant. its because the universe is entirely quantitative, we need these to give units their basic meaning.
gravity can decrease the rate time flows by compressing the space to a shorter distance, which is why they say time stops at the event horizon of a blackhole where the compression of space is infinite because the strength of gravity there is infinite. so gravity can in fact cause time to stop, but the absence of gravity would only make time go faster to the rate it flows universally in hypothetical undistorted space(real time), this of course doesnt exist since gravitational fields extend infinitely though they grow negligible, and because you as an observer made of matter exerts your own field.
gravity only bends spacetime, therefore it only distorts the flow of time, but it doesnt create nor destroy spacetime. would a hammer create or destroy a straight piece of metal from existence just because it can be used to create a curved piece of metal from it?